Improvement in seats for row-boats



0%f/ am?? MPEYERS, OGHAFHEH. WASHINGTON D C llnihed 5mm wat @imite- .Letters Pfl-tent No. 107,439, (lated September 20, 1870.

'IMROVEMENT IN SEATS FOR-ROWeBOATS.

Thev Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making of the seme.

l'o all whoin it may concern I, WALTER BROWN, of Boston, in the county oi' Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invent-od certain new and useful Improvements in Seatsfor Row-Boats, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Oly'eot of the Intention.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a I row-boat with an adjustable seat, so arranged that it vwill follow the motion ofthe 1'o\\er,thus enabling him `Description of the Accompanying Drawing. Figure 1 is a perspective view of a row-boat with my adj ust-able seat attached. Figure 2 represents a part of theboat in sect-ion,l and shows the seat.

Figure 3 isa vertical section of the boat.

General Description.

Let A represent a row-boat of ordinary description.

Il, a seat, so arranged upon ways and guids that it may freely slip back and forth as the rower moves his body. l Y

As represented in the drawing, this seat B slides on the Ways U C, vbut the exact construction is not material, the object being to so arrange the seat that'it may follow the motions of the rower;

In rowing a boathaving my improved seat, the rower places his feet against the foot-rest, and, by using his legs as toggle joints, lays out his strength upon the oar tothe best possible advantage, hisbody constantly remaining in the best form for rowing.

' I claim as my invention-' f The adjustable seat B, arranged substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

' WALTER BROWN.

Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, E. A. NI'CKERSON. 

